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11.50 EOS / Fim de suporte 11.50

English versionIBM has recently announced the End Of Support (EOS) dates for version 11.50 of Informix. The details can be checked at http://www.ibm.com/software/data/support/lifecycle/ but in short the 11.50 will be out of support after April 30 2018.The first release of 11.50 was on May 13, 2008. This means IBM supported this particular version for 10 years.That's not usual in the industry.

After 11.50 IBM released 11.70 and 12.10 which is currently on it's sixth fixpack and is considered mature.Customers still have around 2 years to plan for migrations which should be more than enough.As of today I would recommend any customer to move to 12.10, for the following reasons:

12.10 is on FC6 and is stable

12.10 has much more features than 11.70 and will probably receive further more in upcoming fixpacks

11.70 will have a shorter support time compared to 12.10

The tasks, tests and risks of migrating to 12.10 are exactly the same as for 11.70

So, in short, why plan to move to an older version, if you have a newer one which is stable, has more features and that will require the same steps to migrate to?

The question will become more difficult to answer is in the meantime IBM releases another version.